9 sentences with 'cargo'
Example sentences and phrases with the word cargo and other words derived from it.
• « This voyage was very risky, but if a Roman merchant could make it and return to Rome with a cargo hold full of silk, he would earn a hundred times his investment in profit. »
• « Then he learned how to disassemble his 280-kilogram Steinway piano and tie it to a wall of the truck in the cargo space. »
• « But there are accidents that end thousands of young lives every year; the causes range from the wobble of a vending machine to a ride on the floor of a cargo van. »
• « When Kathy Mendiola of Bonney Lake, Washington, pulled her seven-year-old daughter Lisa out of the back of a cargo van owned by a neighbour, she was struck by the girl's ashen face and her dozing appearance. »
• « A study conducted by Dr. Neil Hampson, revealed that cargo vans with a cargo box pose a serious risk of carbon monoxide poisoning to children. »
• « In Boston, Thomas Hutchinson, now royal governor of Massachusetts, vowed that radicals like Samuel Adams would not prevent the ships from unloading their cargo. »
• « When the Dartmouth sailed into Boston harbour in November 1773, it had twenty days to unload its cargo of tea and pay the tax before it had to return to Britain. Two more ships, the Eleanor and the Beaver, followed soon after. »
• « Steamships also illustrated the social and class distinctions of the pre-war era. While the decks carried precious cargo, the interior was adorned with ornate rooms. In these spaces, whites socialised in the ship's lounges and dining rooms while black slaves served them. »
• « Important new ports were developed at St. Louis, Missouri; Memphis, Tennessee; and elsewhere. By 1860, some thirty-five ships were sailing in and out of New Orleans, carrying an annual cargo consisting mainly of cotton that amounted to $220 million in goods (approximately $6.5 billion in 2014 dollars). »